Man and Boy
Tony Parsons
Top 10 Best Quotes
“to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go”
“Love means knowing when to let go.”
“Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.”
“I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.”
“It can't always be a honeymoon”
“If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do...”
“I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always our children who pick up the bill. We move on to new relationships, always starting over, always thinking we've got another chance to get it right, it's the kids from all these broken marriages who pay the price. They - my son, your daughters, all the millions like them - are carrying around wounds that are going to last a lifetime. It has to stop.”
“I love you but I'm not in love with you”
“Sometimes the fog in his eyes would clear, that fog caused by the pain and the killers of pain, and when it cleared, I saw regret and fear in those eyes swimming with tears and I was convinced that this was it, this was the end, this was surely the end.”
“Love is what's left when being in love has gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.”
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love, cancer, inspirational, man-and-boy, dying, boy, family, illness, man
